X-Message-Number: 17189
From: "Mark Plus" <>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:51:44 -0700

>Message #17175
>Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 11:45:21 +0200
>From: Henri Kluytmans <>
>Subject: Nano repair of cryo-damage
>
>Yvan Bozzonetti wrote :
>
>>When most nano supporter think about nano repair, I feel they think >> in 
>>fact about micro surgery done by micrometer sized robots. That technology 
>>may indeed be produced as a spin off from micro electronics device making. 
>>It would be useful in cryonics to repair >> cracks in frozen bodies for 
>>example. That would be fine, but it fall >> short of the requested 
>>capabilities to get out of the frost. The main problems are at molecular 
>>level, we must reshape badly folded >> proteins or membrane molecules.
>
>Nope, this is not required !
>
>  Badly folded proteins will reshape themselves as soon as the  temperature 
>returns to normal again.

etc.,

Along these lines, has anyone read the article in the August 2001 issue of 
_Scientific American_ titled "Cybernetic Cells"?  The scientists 
constructing advanced computer models of living cells intend to use them for 
discovering new drugs and things like that, but they could conceivably be 
used to model repair scenarios for recovering cryopreserved (and 
cryo-damaged) cells.

It wouldn't be the first time in the history of Transhumanism that software 
has been employed in ways unintended by its authors.  A few years ago I 
heard Ralph Merkle describe the discomfiture of computational chemists when 
he used their chemical modeling software to design nano-gears.

Mark Plus

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